A poor start at Fly Flatts with near gale force WSW>7 and heavy drizzle which cleared by 0830 and the wind eased slightly to WSW>5.
Several Wheatears were present, 1 being a Greenland showing much brighter colours and a real butch of a bird compared to the others.
As I got to the NW corner I was about to give up in the conditions when I picked up a wader calling low over the water then flying across the banking in front of me and low over the moor >SW towards Dean Head. The bird was a Grey Plover which is a site tick for me at Fly Flatts. I dont know whether it had come off the far banking or just a fly through even though Id scoped the area I could have missed it in the conditions.
On to Hunter Hill which also had several Wheatear but otherwise quiet in the wind other than Swallows piling through skimming the moor along with a few House Martins.
Fly Flatts
1 Greenland Wheatear
6 Wheatear SE corner
5 Wheatear by gate
1 GREY PLOVER.......>SW
13 Mipits.........W
several blogging Mipits
1 Kestrel
Hunter Hill
2 Kestrel
4 Wheatear
3 House Martin......>W
150+ Swallow.....>W and >SW
BS
2 comments:
Good on yer with the Grey Plover to compliment the 4 you had last year at Soil Hill. I still got to nail this critter in the area.
Great to get a Grey Plover Bri - not always an easy annual tick locally!
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